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Gentrification and the Middle-class Remaking of Inner London, 1961-2001

Department of Geography, King's College, The Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, UK. chris. hamnett{at}kcl.ac.uk

This paper reviews the debates over the explanation of gentrification and argues that gentrification is best explained as the social and spatial manifestation of the transition from an industrial to a post-industrial economy based on financial, business and creative services, with associated changes in the nature and location of work, in the occupational class structure, earnings and incomes and the structure of the housing market. The paper sets out the links between these changes in the London context. It also examines the evidence for gentrification-induced displacement in London, arguing that it may be more appropriate to view the process partly as one of replacement.

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